As Pajkovic wrote, “Feedback loops reinforce a user’s pre-existing preferences, diminishing their exposure to a diverse range of cultural offerings and denying art, aesthetics and culture of its confrontational societal role.” That lack of confrontation is concerning. It’s not that great art needs to be inherently offensive; rather, when everything

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I’m not looking to rewind the clock back to a time before we all had email and cellphones. What I want is to be inspired by the last generation that made a new life-world—the postwar American abstract expressionist painters, jazz musicians, and writers and poets who created an alternate American modernism that directly challenged the ascendant Comm... See more